An just like many others one day your hot the next day your not, just to name a few Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft`s Messenger-Hotmail and now Google Reader. Also I started using Google reader late last year for a couple months then dumped it for something like Mozilla Firefox browser. But what do I know here are a couple of RSS Readers that are better then Google Reader.
Snarfer: http://www.snarfware.com/
RSS Bandit: http://rssbandit.org/
FeedDemon: http://www.feeddemon.com/ (Another piece of software that might be dead Check out the link for your self)